17.5% ▼ -35.6%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coral Bay · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Coral Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people perform unpaid care in Coral Bay compared to the rest of the state. While 17.5% of residents volunteer, the number of people providing unpaid childcare or housework is much lower than the national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common here than in the rest of Australia, with 17.5% of people pitching in. However, this is a drop from 2011, when 27.2% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very low in this area. Only 13.4% of people care for children unpaid and 11.5% do over 15 hours of housework, both of which are far below the Western Australian averages.
5.1% ▼ -60.9%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.4% ▼ -38.6%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.5% ▼ -63.3%
Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.7%. This is lower than most areas, though it is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.7%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Coral Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522015/coral-bay/topic/community